Even for free, why use junk? There are much better options.The slide in profit margins at Microsoft continues . . . . ImposterYou didn't say "baroque".
On the heels of yesterday's price cut for a number of Microsoft-hosted enterprise cloud service offerings, the company is introducing a "free for six months" deal, in the hopes of attracting Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM On Demand users. by Mary Jo Foley
...the power of the Adobe Flash platform...The power to clog up the Internet with useless bandwidth consuming garbage?The power to reduce your CPU to a useless lump of sand?lehnerus2000
Businesses who have already taken the plunge into the Salesforce cloud will find something new this morning: Adobe Flash. The two companies today announced an alliance that brings the power of the Adobe Flash platform to the Salesforce's Force.com, where developers build - and many times share...
Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs -Â announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...
A company called Boomi is so confident of its application integration technology that it has issued a challenge ahead of next month's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco: tell Boomi which application you'd most like to see integrated into salesforce and Boomi will create the "Dream Widget" to give away at...
Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...
Dell and Salesforce.com said Monday that they will team up to target small and mid-sized businesses. The announcement, which coincides with Oracle's OpenWorld, goes like this: The companies will launch certified Dell-Salesforce.com customer relationship management bundles via the cloud. Pricing will start at...
Thoughts from a Sage ERP/CRM business partnerIf Salesforce did it once with CRM, then who is to say that they can't do it again with accounting. I'm not counting them out.At this point FinaincalForce is strictly a financial accounting package. Sage, Microsoft, and Intuit all have established modules that...
Back in 1999, I was a salesforce.com user and at that time, it was a rather kludgy sales force automation application that didn't do much right - for example if I tried to export a .CSV file it gave me an .XLS file and vice versa.  I read something by Marc...
Master Subscription Agreement MSAHas anyone taken a look at the MSA for the service??? I'm a SaaS believer, but when you see stuff like this in an agreement, "FINANCIALFORCE.COM AND ITS LICENSORS MAKE NO REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR GUARANTY AS TO THE RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, QUALITY, SUITABILITY, TRUTH, AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY OR...
Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs: The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will...
Small Business CRMI happened to come across your article today and was somewhat dismayed by your comments regarding Salesforce.com's customer service. As the CEO of Commence Corporation a provider of CRM solutions to thousands of small to mid-size businesses I have very little interest in defending Salesforce.com about...
Brent Leary, who is not only my bud, but one of the leading, no, the leading, small business consultant and analyst when it comes to small business (duh!), CRM, social CRM and social media, Â is someone that I want to highlight on these pages. Â Not that you need to come...
Salesforce on Wednesday will announce an upgrade to the Service Cloud offering it unveiled back in January, incorporating enhancements to its social networking tools and announcing plans for the rollout of a Knowledge-as-a-Service offering and crowd-sourcing Answers product. The company boasts that it has been growing at...
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...
Is WebEx a sinking vessel? The Cisco insider brought in to captain the web collaboration business after acquisition has just jumped ship to embark on a new career with Salesforce.com. by Phil Wainewright
Salesforce is taking cloud computing on the road, opening its force.com platform to third-party channel re-sellers - everyone from the local one-man IT shop to the big systems integrators. Today, the company will announce its new Value Added Reseller VAR program as a way of helping...
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